well, the basic tone of the performer is more nasal sounding IMO and the ensemble effect is of a slightly different design, but with an omni and small stone, if you can't get satisfying disco strings, then you should give up

just use some outboard eq to achieve the type of tone you want.

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.” - Rimbaud

meatballfulton wrote:Crumar was what you bought if you couldn't afford an ARP.

Ohhh… Cries "unfair" In 1978 I could afford to get an Omni II, but CHOSE to get the Crumar Performer.

Yes, calyx93, you're right - the 3 phase chorus circuitry was very different for each stringer. The ARP used 3 separate chorus blocks each modulated by it's own LFO, the Crumar (and most other stringers) used 3 chorus blocks but only two LFO's that were inter-modulated and out of phase… Sorry, that's the geek in me screaming to get out, but the difference in sound is very noticeable.